Start with one falsehood and build on it to create another. Here, the survey and Mustafa Bayoumi build on the premise that America is dominated by racist politics and that “Islamophobia” is rampant. Then they use these paranoid Leftist fantasies to — surprise! — claim victim status for Muslims. In a sane academic environment, Mustafa Bayoumi would be laughed off campus. As it is, he’ll probably get an award.
“Survey: Some US Muslims have negative stereotypes about themselves,” by Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service, August 31, 2022:
(RNS) — American Muslims breathed a sigh of relief when law enforcement authorities announced the arrest of a man suspected of killing as many as four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, earlier this month.
But then it turned out the suspect, Muhammad Syed, was himself a Muslim. (He has been charged in the killing of three of the men.)
A new survey by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a think tank based in Washington and Dearborn, Michigan, corroborates a disturbing finding. While Islamophobia has declined among other American religious groups, it has increased among Muslims themselves.
American Muslims scored 26 on the ISPU’s Islamophobia index of 0 to 100, which measures a group’s endorsement of anti-Muslim stereotypes. That’s higher than many other religious groups, such as Jews, who scored 17 on the index; Protestants, who scored 23; or the religiously unaffiliated, who had a score of 22. White Catholics (28) and white evangelicals (30) scored highest on the Islamophobia index.
“Minority groups can internalize negative stereotypes about their community,” said Erum Ikramullah, research project manager and the report’s co-author. “It has huge effects on mental health, feelings of shame, embarrassment and self-identity.”
Within the Muslim community, the report found that higher Islamophobia index scores were driven primarily by Muslims who identify as white. White Muslims had a score of 40 on the index.
Moustafa Bayoumi, a professor of of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, suggested that’s a crisis of whiteness that has affected white Muslims, too.
“With the whole country being driven by conservative politics centered on whiteness, it’s naive to think that white Muslims would not be susceptible to that same ideology,” Bayoumi said.
Younger Muslims were also more likely to have internalized Islamophobia….
CogitoErgoSum says
Do most of these white Americans who convert to Islam tend to be rednecks from the South? This reminds me of the explanation Thomas Sowell has for the type of culture that is now predominate among black Americans. It’s the fault of white rednecks and crackers. This is a long video but in my opinion it’s well worth taking the time to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT4NQ9D0M6w
mg says
His book ‘Conquests and Cultures’ is quite a compendium of cultural structures that define and defy our moribund self deception progressive notions that themselves wobble under closer inspection. A bunch of his youtube videos are from this tome.
CogitoErgoSum says
I wish Thomas Sowell had been our first black American President. I think he was probably too honest, too decent and too smart for that to have ever happened though. I hope the day comes when people will value those qualities again but it’s not looking good right now. Imagine Joe Biden being described as too honest, too decent and too smart. Does anyone really believe that is what got him elected?
Wellington says
+1
gravenimage says
I greatly respect Thomas Sowell.
milo minderbinder says
+1
“Imagine Joe Biden being described as too honest, too decent and too smart. Does anyone really believe that is what got him elected?”
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What concerns me is that there are people who do. There are those who see people like Biden the way the want him to be, and not the way he is. There are sycophants who refuse to see him for what he is, an empty suit, a despicable, sorry excuse for a human being. An individual that has zero integrity, character or honesty. An individual who is a congenital liar, thief and a bandit.
Biden, like Obama, is the consummate con artist. A man who has lived most of his life off the fat of the land. An individual who has debased the Office of U.S. Senator, then Vice President of the United States and now fraudulent POTUS, by enriching himself, and his family with corrupt deals that have been revealed on the Hunter Biden laptop.
And now, that is suffering from dementia, which should be apparent to anyone with a brain, he is more pliable than ever. He is a puppet, the front man for the “global elite.” Someone has to play the role of POTUS, what better candidate than a senile old man who probably doesn’t know who is most of the time. I wonder what his handlers are juicing him up with to keep the guy going?
Watch this Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGRxVITBGOA – my interpretation… Obama is showing the world what a clown Joe Biden is. Biden is shuffling around with that blank look, no one is paying any attention to him, the attention is on the narcissist, Obama. Joe finally shufflers his way over to the crowd and puts his hand on Obama’s shoulder to get his attention… and what does Obama do?
He completely ignores Biden and continues to bask in the worship that is being bestowed on him by the minions surrounding him! So… who is really the POTUS?
somehistory says
Psychopaths have to find someone to blame for their inadequacies and to use a current way of saying things, this “Blaming Whites is trending.” this fool mozlum is just getting on the bandwagon because he can.
For every problem today, Whites are trotted out for the explanation behind the problem and the solution is to eliminate Whites. Whites include Black Christians.
If every White dropped dead tomorrow, the other colors would still have the same problems they do now…only to a greater degree. If that makes me sound racist, I don’t give a bean. It just makes me even “trendier.”
Infidel says
This is pretty hilarious – muslims – of any ethnicity – turning out to be ‘islamophobic’. Personally, I know 2 muslims (friends of relatives, not my own) who actually are: while they may or may not know anything about islam itself, they have a pretty dim view of muslims in general, and are quick to dismiss somebody if that person happens to be muslim
Just wonder how CAIR will handle this? Would it be by trying to publicly shame them – the woke way, or will they instead ask their favored imams to issue fatwas against such attitudes? WWMD – What would Muhammad do?
somehistory says
the bloodthirsty fake ‘prophet’ would have a slaughter-fest.
Infidel says
Assuming that he existed for real
somehistory says
Yes, he’s fake either way….fake creature, fiction of a demented and evil mind, or fake prophet.
drljr says
When one takes the time to read the Qur’an, ISBN 978-0-913321-01-0, one finds Islam citizens need to be fearful – especially of other Islam citizens. Being fearful of an Islam citizen is not a phobia when one learns what Islam citizens are allowed to do and instructed to do by the instructions in the Qur’an and Islam law. Keep in mind an Islam citizen, under Islam law, can do what they want since the victim is responsible for what happens to them. No Islam citizen can ever be trusted. And renouncing Islam citizenship and the worship of Hubal (Allah, or the god, of Islam) carries a death penalty.
Keep in mind Islam is not a religion but a theocracy. Imams are government officials and Mosques are government facilities. People need to learn Islam real history and what it has been doing for more than 1400 years or so. Also, Islam has no association with Judaism or Christianity. Islam is rooted in a polytheist religion that has around 360 gods and goddesses.
gravenimage says
Survey: ‘Islamophobia’ increasing among Muslims, Muslim prof says white Muslims have ‘crisis of whiteness’
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So if any Muslim has a negative opinion about Jihad terror he is having a “crisis of whiteness”.
And there have been white Muslims for centuries–Islam had reached places like Spain and Armenia by the 7th century. But Muslims today are happily jumping onto the hatred of whites bandwagon.
And I love Bosch Fawstin’s apt cartoon.
duffdad says
It’s has nothing to do with a “whiteness issue”!! Critical thinking white people are reading “The Critical Qur’an!!